Recent Work
“There is only one way to see things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.“
Picasso
Vision and Verse
Wharfedale 1 | Mixed Media | 85x65 cm | 2022
Snow and frost, fog, mizzle or mist
Backlit in sun’s iridescence
All familiar features missed
But what is left is the essence
Wharfedale 7 | Mixed Media | 85x65 cm | 2025
Curves as gentle as the moors
Lime and gritstone craft the haws
Hewn and hued in russet, mauve and sage
Leached and bleached to Winter’s beige
Bamburgh Beach | Mixed Media | 85x65 cm | 2025
Rothko in seams – sand sea and sky
Canvass so wide, so infinitely high
Where sea meets air, I love to stand and stare
To stand and stare – and glare where sea meets air
Simon's Moods
Currently being exhibited at Parcevall Hall with a view of Simon’s Seat out of the gallery window
Simon’s Easter Spring in his step
All forgiven and time to restore
At breakfast on Galilee’s shore
Now ‘Peter the rock’ where his seat is set
Simon’s throne of purple on August twelfth
Replete in regal robe and cloaked with stealth
In ermine, emerald and gold
Simon’s royal secret not often told
He’s disappearing from sight
Under ghostly counterpane
Silently and gently lain
Not out of mind but out of sight
Final shimmer shivers before dark
Faint hint of butter on his chin?
But all buttercups are now turned in
And Simon too will sleep till dawn’s first lark
Great sleety flakes
Not snow or rain
Soon pale Simon wakes
His colour back again
Glistening white over shadows blue
Perfect day for the Narnia view
Fingers numb and knuckles raw
Await great Aslan’s roar and thaw
On Simon’s moor there’s more and more
To thrill your feet on Simon’s Seat
More to ‘wander as a cloud’
A hill to make great Yorkshire proud
The Cheviots from Simonside | 2024 | Mixed Media | 372 x 120cm | Private Collection
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Bamburgh Beach | 2025 | Acrylics
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